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      <p>Berkeley DB cursors may be used inside a transaction, exactly as any other
<a href="../api_reference/C/db.html" class="olink">DB</a> method.  The enclosing transaction ID must be specified when
the cursor is created, but it does not then need to be further specified
on operations performed using the cursor.  One important point to
remember is that a cursor <span class="bold"><strong>must be closed</strong></span> before the enclosing
transaction is committed or aborted.</p>
      <p>The following code fragment uses a cursor to store a new key in the cats
database with four associated data items.  The key is a name.  The data
items are a company name and a list of the breeds of cat owned.  Each
of the data entries is stored as a duplicate data item.  In this
example, transactions are necessary to ensure that either all or none
of the data items appear in case of system or application failure.</p>
      <pre class="programlisting">int
main(int argc, char *argv)
{
	extern int optind;
	DB *db_cats, *db_color, *db_fruit;
	DB_ENV *dbenv;
	int ch;

	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "")) != EOF)
		switch (ch) {
		case '?':
		default:
			usage();
		}
	argc -= optind;
	argv += optind;

	env_dir_create();
	env_open(&amp;dbenv);

	/* Open database: Key is fruit class; Data is specific type. */
	db_open(dbenv, &amp;db_fruit, "fruit", 0);

	/* Open database: Key is a color; Data is an integer. */
	db_open(dbenv, &amp;db_color, "color", 0);

	/*
	 * Open database:
	 *	Key is a name; Data is: company name, cat breeds.
	 */
	db_open(dbenv, &amp;db_cats, "cats", 1);

	add_fruit(dbenv, db_fruit, "apple", "yellow delicious");

	add_color(dbenv, db_color, "blue", 0);
	add_color(dbenv, db_color, "blue", 3);

<span class="bold"><strong>	add_cat(dbenv, db_cats,
		"Amy Adams",
		"Oracle",
		"abyssinian",
		"bengal",
		"chartreaux",
		NULL);</strong></span>

	return (0);
}

<span class="bold"><strong>int
add_cat(DB_ENV *dbenv, DB *db, char *name, ...)
{
	va_list ap;
	DBC *dbc;
	DBT key, data;
	DB_TXN *tid;
	int fail, ret, t_ret;
	char *s;

	/* Initialization. */
	fail = 0;

	memset(&amp;key, 0, sizeof(key));
	memset(&amp;data, 0, sizeof(data));
	key.data = name;
	key.size = strlen(name);

retry:	/* Begin the transaction. */
	if ((ret = dbenv-&gt;txn_begin(dbenv, NULL, &amp;tid, 0)) != 0) {
		dbenv-&gt;err(dbenv, ret, "DB_ENV-&gt;txn_begin");
		exit (1);
	}

	/* Delete any previously existing item. */
	switch (ret = db-&gt;del(db, tid, &amp;key, 0)) {
	case 0:
	case DB_NOTFOUND:
		break;
	case DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK:
	default:
		/* Retry the operation. */
		if ((t_ret = tid-&gt;abort(tid)) != 0) {
			dbenv-&gt;err(dbenv, t_ret, "DB_TXN-&gt;abort");
			exit (1);
		}
		if (fail++ == MAXIMUM_RETRY)
			return (ret);
		goto retry;
	}

	/* Create a cursor. */
	if ((ret = db-&gt;cursor(db, tid, &amp;dbc, 0)) != 0) {
		dbenv-&gt;err(dbenv, ret, "db-&gt;cursor");
		exit (1);
	}

	/* Append the items, in order. */
	va_start(ap, name);
	while ((s = va_arg(ap, char *)) != NULL) {
		data.data = s;
		data.size = strlen(s);
		switch (ret = dbc-&gt;c_put(dbc, &amp;key, &amp;data, DB_KEYLAST)) {
		case 0:
			break;
		case DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK:
		default:
			va_end(ap);

			/* Retry the operation. */
			if ((t_ret = dbc-&gt;c_close(dbc)) != 0) {
				dbenv-&gt;err(
				    dbenv, t_ret, "dbc-&gt;c_close");
				exit (1);
			}
			if ((t_ret = tid-&gt;abort(tid)) != 0) {
				dbenv-&gt;err(dbenv, t_ret, "DB_TXN-&gt;abort");
				exit (1);
			}
			if (fail++ == MAXIMUM_RETRY)
				return (ret);
			goto retry;
		}
	}
	va_end(ap);

	/* Success: commit the change. */
	if ((ret = dbc-&gt;c_close(dbc)) != 0) {
		dbenv-&gt;err(dbenv, ret, "dbc-&gt;c_close");
		exit (1);
	}
	if ((ret = tid-&gt;commit(tid, 0)) != 0) {
		dbenv-&gt;err(dbenv, ret, "DB_TXN-&gt;commit");
		exit (1);
	}
	return (0);
}</strong></span></pre>
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